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- the invention relates to a random access procedure for use in a mobile communication system. Furthermore, the invention also provides a mobile terminal (e.g. a user equipment) and a base station (e.g. an eNodeB) that as suitably adapted to perform the random access procedure as well as the definition of a special format of a random access response message signalled during the random access procedure.
- a mobile terminal e.g. a user equipment
- a base station e.g. an eNodeB
- LTE Long Term Evolution
- High-Speed Downlink Packet Access HSDPA
- HSUPA High Speed Uplink Packet Access
- LTE Long Term Evolution
- the work item (WI) specification on Long-Term Evolution (LTE) called Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) and UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) is to be finalized as Release 8 (LTE Rel. 8).
- LTE system represents efficient packet-based radio access and radio access networks that provide full IP-based functionalities with low latency and low cost.
- the detailed system requirements are given in.
- scalable multiple transmission bandwidths are specified such as 1.4, 3.0, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0, and 20.0 MHz, in order to achieve flexible system deployment using a given spectrum.
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM
- OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
- SC-FDMA Single-carrier frequency division multiple access
- UE user equipment
- MIMO multiple-input multiple-output
- the E-UTRAN consists of eNode B, providing the E-UTRA user plane (PDCP/RLC/MAC/PHY) and control plane (RRC) protocol terminations towards the user equipment (UE).
- the eNode B hosts the Physical (PHY), Medium Access Control (MAC), Radio Link Control (RLC), and Packet Data Control Protocol (PDCP) layers that include the functionality of user-plane header-compression and encryption. It also offers Radio Resource Control (RRC) functionality corresponding to the control plane.
- RRC Radio Resource Control
- the eNode Bs are interconnected with each other by means of the X2 interface.
- the eNode Bs are also connected by means of the S1 interface to the EPC (Evolved Packet Core), more specifically to the MME (Mobility Management Entity) by means of the S1-MME and to the Serving Gateway (SGW) by means of the S1-U.
- EPC Evolved Packet Core
- MME Mobility Management Entity
- SGW Serving Gateway
- the S1 interface supports a many-to-many relation between MMEs/Serving Gateways and eNode Bs.
- the SGW routes and forwards user data packets, while also acting as the mobility anchor for the user plane during inter-eNode B handovers and as the anchor for mobility between LTE and other 3GPP technologies (terminating S4 interface and relaying the traffic between 2G/3G systems and PDN GW).
- the SGW terminates the downlink data path and triggers paging when downlink data arrives for the user equipment. It manages and stores user equipment contexts, e.g. parameters of the IP bearer service, network internal routing information. It also performs replication of the user traffic in case of lawful interception.
- user equipment contexts e.g. parameters of the IP bearer service, network internal routing information. It also performs replication of the user traffic in case of lawful interception.
- the MME is the key control-node for the LTE access-network. It is responsible for idle mode user equipment tracking and paging procedure including retransmissions. It is involved in the bearer activation/deactivation process and is also responsible for choosing the SGW for a user equipment at the initial attach and at time of intra-LTE handover involving Core Network (CN) node relocation. It is responsible for authenticating the user (by interacting with the HSS).
- NAS Non-Access Stratum
- the Non-Access Stratum (NAS) signaling terminates at the MME and it is also responsible for generation and allocation of temporary identities to user equipments. It checks the authorization of the user equipment to camp on the service provider's Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) and enforces user equipment roaming restrictions.
- PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
- the MME is the termination point in the network for ciphering/integrity protection for NAS signaling and handles the security key management. Lawful interception of signaling is also supported by the MME.
- the MME also provides the control plane function for mobility between LTE and 2G/3G access networks with the S3 interface terminating at the MME from the SGSN.
- the MME also terminates the S6a interface towards the home HSS for roaming user equipments.
- eNode B For uplink transmission, power-efficient user-terminal transmission is necessary to maximize coverage.
- Single-carrier transmission combined with FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access) with dynamic bandwidth allocation has been chosen as the evolved UTRA uplink transmission scheme.
- the main reason for the preference for single-carrier transmission is the lower peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), compared to multi-carrier signals (OFDMA—Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access), and the corresponding improved power-amplifier efficiency and assumed improved coverage (higher data rates for a given terminal peak power).
- PAPR peak-to-average power ratio
- OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
- eNode B assigns users a unique time/frequency resource for transmitting user data thereby ensuring intra-cell orthogonality.
- An orthogonal access in the uplink promises increased spectral efficiency by eliminating intra-cell interference. Interference due to multipath propagation is handled at the base station (eNode B), aided by insertion of a
- the basic physical resource used for data transmission consists of a frequency resource of size BW grant during one time interval, e.g. a sub-frame of 0.5 ms, onto which coded information bits are mapped.
- a sub-frame also referred to as transmission time interval (TTI)
- TTI transmission time interval
- the frequency resource can either be in a localized or distributed spectrum as illustrated, however for 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) it was decided to only support localized allocations in the uplink.
- localized single-carrier is characterized by the transmitted signal having a continuous spectrum that occupies a part of the total available spectrum. Different symbol rates (corresponding to different data rates) of the transmitted signal imply different bandwidths of a localized single-carrier signal.
- distributed single-carrier is characterized by the transmitted signal having a non-continuous (“comb-shaped”) spectrum that is distributed over system bandwidth. Note that, although the distributed single-carrier signal is distributed over the system bandwidth, the total amount of occupied spectrum is, in essence, the same as that of localized single-carrier. Furthermore, for higher/lower symbol rate, the number of “comb-fingers” is increased/reduced, while the “bandwidth” of each “comb finger” remains the same.
- Distributed transmission can provide, a larger frequency diversity gain than localized transmission, while localized transmission more easily allows for channel-dependent scheduling. Note that, in many cases the scheduling decision may decide to give the whole bandwidth to a single user equipment to achieve high data rates.
- the uplink scheme allows for both scheduled access, i.e. controlled by eNodeB, and contention based access.
- the user equipment In case of scheduled access the user equipment is allocated a certain frequency resource for a certain time (i.e. a time/frequency resource) for uplink data transmission. However, some time/frequency resources can be allocated for contention based access. Within these time/frequency resources, user equipments can transmit without first being scheduled.
- One scenario where user equipment is making a contention based access is for example the random access, i.e. when user equipment is performing initial access to a cell or for requesting uplink resources.
- For the scheduled access eNode B scheduler assigns a user a unique frequency/time resource for uplink data transmission. More specifically the scheduler determines
- the allocation information is signaled to the user equipment via a scheduling grant, sent on the so-called L1/L2 control channel.
- this downlink channel is referred to the “uplink grant channel” in the following.
- a scheduling grant message (also referred to as an resource assignment herein) contains at least information which part of the frequency band the user equipment is allowed to use, the validity period of the grant, and the transport format the user equipment has to use for the upcoming uplink transmission.
- the shortest validity period is one sub-frame. Additional information may also be included in the grant message, depending on the selected scheme.
- Only “per user equipment” grants are used to grant the right to transmit on the Uplink Shared Channel UL-SCH (i.e. there are no “per user equipment per RB” grants). Therefore the user equipment needs to distribute the allocated resources among the radio bearers according to some rules, which will be explained in detail in the next section.
- the base station decides the transport format based on some information, e.g. reported scheduling information and QoS information, and user equipment has to follow the selected transport format.
- eNodeB assigns the maximum uplink resource and user equipment selects accordingly the actual transport format for the data transmissions.
- Uplink data transmissions are only allowed to use the time-frequency resources assigned to the user equipment through the scheduling grant. If the user equipment does not have a valid grant, it is not allowed to transmit any uplink data. Unlike in HSUPA, where each user equipment is always allocated a dedicated channel there is only one uplink data channel shared by multiple users (UL-SCH) for data transmissions.
- UL-SCH uplink data channel shared by multiple users
- the user equipment transmits a resource request message to the eNodeB.
- This resources request message could for example contain information on the buffer status, the power status of the user equipment and some Quality of Services (QoS) related information.
- QoS Quality of Services
- This information which will be referred to as scheduling information, allows eNodeB to make an appropriate resource allocation.
- the buffer status is reported for a group of radio bearers. Of course other configurations for the buffer status reporting are also possible. Since the scheduling of radio resources is the most important function in a shared channel access network for determining Quality of Service, there are a number of requirements that should be fulfilled by the uplink scheduling scheme for LTE in order to allow for an efficient QoS management (see 3GPP RAN WG#2 Tdoc.
- R2-R2-062606 “QoS operator requirements/use cases for services sharing the same bearer”, by T-Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, Orange, KPN; available at http://www.3gpp.org/ and incorporated herein by reference):
- one essential aspect of the LTE scheduling scheme is to provide mechanisms with which the operator can control the partitioning of its aggregate cell capacity between the radio bearers of the different QoS classes.
- the QoS class of a radio bearer is identified by the QoS profile of the corresponding SAE bearer signaled from serving gateway to eNode B as described before. An operator can then allocate a certain amount of its aggregate cell capacity to the aggregate traffic associated with radio bearers of a certain QoS class.
- the main goal of employing this class-based approach is to be able to differentiate the treatment of packets depending on the QoS class they belong to. For example, as the load in a cell increases, it should be possible for an operator to handle this by throttling traffic belonging to a low-priority QoS class. At this stage, the high-priority traffic can still experience a low-loaded situation, since the aggregate resources allocated to this traffic is sufficient to serve it. This should be possible in both uplink and downlink direction.
- One benefit of employing this approach is to give the operator full control of the policies that govern the partitioning of the bandwidth. For example, one operator's policy could be to, even at extremely high loads, avoid starvation of traffic belonging to its lowest priority QoS Class.
- the avoidance of starvation of low priority traffic is one of the main requirements for the uplink scheduling scheme in LTE.
- HSUPA UMTS Release 6
- E-TFC selection Enhanced Transport Format Combination selection
- the eNode B scheduler In order to avoid starvation the eNode B scheduler must have means to control from which radio bearers a user equipment transmits data. This mainly influences the design and use of the scheduling grants transmitted on the L1/L2 control channel in downlink. In the following the details of the uplink rate control procedure in LTE is outlined.
- RACH Random Access
- Random Access in LTE is used to achieve uplink time synchronization for a user equipment which either has not yet acquired, or has lost, its uplink synchronization. Once a user equipment has achieved uplink synchronization the eNodeB can schedule uplink transmission resources for it. The following scenarios are therefore relevant for random access:
- D-SR dedicated scheduling request
- LTE offers two types of random access procedures that allow access to be either contention based, i.e. implying an inherent risk of collision, or contention-free (non-contention based). It should be noted that contention-based random access can be applied for all six scenarios listed above, whereas a non-contention based random access procedure can only be applied for the downlink data arrival and handover scenario.
- FIG. 5 shows the contention based RACH procedure of LTE. This procedure consists of four “steps”.
- the user equipment transmits 501 a random access preamble on the Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) to the eNodeB.
- PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
- the preamble is selected by user equipment from the set of available random access preambles reserved by eNodeB for contention based access.
- preambles there are 64 preambles per cell which can be used for contention-free as well as contention based random access.
- the set of contention based preambles can be further subdivided into two groups, so that the choice of preamble can carry one bit of information to indicate information relating to the amount of transmission resources needed to transmit for the first scheduled transmission, which is referred to as msg3 in TS36.321 (see step 503 ).
- the system information broadcasted in the cell contain the information which signatures (preambles) are in each of the two subgroups as well as the meaning of each subgroup.
- the user equipment randomly selects one preamble from the subgroup corresponding to the size of transmission resource needed for message 3 transmission.
- eNodeB After eNodeB has detected a RACH preamble, it sends 502 a Random Access Response (RAR) on the PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) addressed on the PDCCH with the (Random Access) RA-RNTI identifying the time-frequency slot in which the preamble was detected. If multiple user equipments transmitted the same RACH preamble in the same PRACH resource, which is also referred to as collision, they would receive the same random access response.
- RAR Random Access Response
- the random access response itself conveys the detected RACH preamble, a timing alignment command (TA command) for synchronization of subsequent uplink transmissions, an initial uplink resource assignment (grant) for the transmission of the first scheduled transmission (see step 503 ) and an assignment of a Temporary Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (T-CRNTI).
- TA command timing alignment command
- T-CRNTI Temporary Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier
- the random access message can also contain a so-called back-off indicator, which the eNodeB can set to instruct the user equipment to back off for a period of time before retrying a random access attempt.
- the user equipment monitors the PDCCH for reception of random access response within a given time window, which is configured by the eNodeB. In case user equipment doesn't receive a random access response within the configured time window, it retransmits the preamble at the next PRACH opportunity considering a potentially back off period.
- the user equipment transmits 503 the first scheduled uplink transmission on the resources assigned by the grant within the random access response.
- This scheduled uplink transmission conveys the actual random access procedure message like for example RRC connection request, tracking area update or buffer status report. Furthermore it includes either the C-RNTI for user equipments in RRC_CONNECTED mode or the unique 48-bit user equipment identity if the user equipments are in RRC_IDLE mode. In case of a preamble collision having occurred, i.e.
- the colliding user equipments will receive the same T-CRNTI within the random access response and will also collide in the same uplink resources when transmitting 503 their scheduled transmission. This may result in interference that no transmission from a colliding user equipment can be decoded at the eNodeB, and the user equipments will restart the random access procedure after having reached maximum number of retransmission for their scheduled transmission. In case the scheduled transmission from one user equipment is successfully decoded by eNodeB, the contention remains unsolved for the other user equipments.
- the eNode B For resolution of this type of contention, the eNode B sends 504 a contention resolution message addressed to the C-RNTI or Temporary C-RNTI, and, in the latter case, echoes the 48-bit user equipment identity contained the scheduled transmission. It supports HARQ. In case of collision followed by a successful decoding of the message 3, the HARQ feedback (ACK) is only transmitted by the user equipment which detects its own identity, either C-RNTI or unique user equipment ID. Other UEs understand that there was a collision at step 1 and can quickly exit the current RACH procedure and starts another one.
- FIG. 6 is illustrating the contention-free random access procedure of LTE.
- the eNodeB provides 601 the user equipment with the preamble to use for random access so that there is no risk of collisions, i.e. multiple user equipment transmitting the same preamble.
- the user equipment is sending 602 the preamble which was signaled by eNodeB in the uplink on a PRACH resource. Since the case that multiple UEs are sending the same preamble is avoided for a contention-free random access, no contention resolution is necessary, which in turn implies that step 504 of the contention based procedure shown in FIG. 5 can be omitted. Essentially a contention-free random access procedure is finished after having successfully received the random access response.
- Hybrid ARQ is a combination of Forward Error Correction (FEC) and ARQ.
- HARQ HARQ at the MAC layer
- outer ARQ at the RLC layer
- the outer ARQ is required to handle residual errors that are not corrected by HARQ that is kept simple by the use of a single bit error-feedback mechanism, i.e. ACK/NACK.
- An N-process stop-and-wait HARQ is employed that has asynchronous re-transmissions in the downlink and synchronous re-transmissions in the uplink.
- Synchronous HARQ means that the re-transmissions of HARQ blocks occur at pre-defined periodic intervals. Hence, no explicit signaling is required to indicate to the receiver the retransmission schedule.
- Asynchronous HARQ offers the flexibility of scheduling re-transmissions based on air interface conditions. In this case some identification of the HARQ process needs to be signaled in order to allow for a correct combing and protocol operation.
- HARQ operations with eight processes is used in LTE Rel. 8.
- the HARQ protocol operation for Downlink data transmission will be similar or even identical to HSDPA.
- Retransmissions are either scheduled by a NACK, synchronous non-adaptive retransmission, or explicitly scheduled by a PDCCH, synchronous adaptive retransmissions.
- a synchronous non-adaptive retransmission the retransmission will use the same parameters as the previous uplink transmission, i.e. the retransmission will be signaled on the same physical channel resources respectively uses the same modulation scheme.
- the eNode B Since synchronous adaptive retransmissions are explicitly scheduled via PDCCH, the eNode B has the possibility to change certain parameters for the retransmission.
- a retransmission could be for example scheduled on a different frequency resource in order to avoid fragmentation in the uplink, or the eNode B could change the modulation scheme or alternatively indicate user equipment what redundancy version to use for the retransmission.
- the HARQ feedback (ACK/NACK) and PDCCH signaling occurs at the same timing. Therefore user equipment only needs to check once whether a synchronous non-adaptive retransmission is triggered, only NACK is received, or whether the eNode B requests a synchronous adaptive retransmission, i.e. PDCCH is signaled.
- L1/L2 control signaling needs to be transmitted on the downlink along with the data.
- the control signaling needs to be multiplexed with the downlink data in a sub-frame (assuming that the user allocation can change from sub-frame to sub-frame).
- user allocation might also be performed on a TTI (Transmission Time Interval) basis, where the TTI length is a multiple of the sub-frames.
- TTI length may be fixed in a service area for all users, may be different for different users, or may even by dynamic for each user.
- the L1/2 control signaling needs only be transmitted once per TTI.
- the L1/L2 control signaling is transmitted on the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). It should be noted that assignments for uplink data transmissions, uplink grants, are also transmitted on the PDCCH.
- PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel
- the PDCCH information sent on the L1/L2 control signaling may be separated into the Shared Control Information (SCI) and Dedicated Control Information (DCI).
- SCI Shared Control Information
- DCI Dedicated Control Information
- SCI Shared Control Information
- Cat 1 information The SCI part of the L1/L2 control signaling contains information related to the resource allocation (indication).
- the SCI typically contains the following information:
- the SCI may additionally contain information such as ACK/NACK for uplink transmission, uplink scheduling information, information on the DCI (resource, MCS, etc.).
- DCI Dedicated Control Information
- Dedicated Control Information carries the so-called Cat 2/3 information.
- the DCI part of the L1/L2 control signaling contains information related to the transmission format (Cat 2) of the data transmitted to a scheduled user indicated by Cat 1.
- the DCI needs only to be decoded by the user scheduled according to Cat 1.
- the DCI typically contains information on:
- L1/L2 control signaling is transmitted on a separate physical channel (PDCCH).
- PDCCH physical channel
- L1/L2 control signaling is transmitted on the downlink (PDCCH) to tell the user equipment about the transmission details.
- This L1/L2 control signaling typically contains information on:
- the L1/L2 control information may also contain additional information or may omit some of the information.
- additional information may also contain additional information or may omit some of the information.
- the L1/L2 control information does not contain a HARQ process number, since a synchronous HARQ protocol is employed for LTE uplink.
- the HARQ process to be used for an uplink transmission is given by the timing.
- the redundancy version (RV) information is jointly encoded with the transport format information, i.e. the RV info is embedded in the transport format (TF) field.
- the TF respectively MCS field has for example a size of 5 bits, which corresponds to 32 entries. 3 TF/MCS table entries are reserved for indicating RVs 1 , 2 or 3 .
- the remaining MCS table entries are used to signal the MCS level (TBS) implicitly indicating RV 0 .
- the size of the CRC field of the PDCCH is 16 bits.
- the L1 control information for uplink resource assignment contain a so-called CQI request bit, which is set by eNodeB in order to instruct the UE to include downlink channel quality information (CQI) within the scheduled uplink transmissions.
- CQI downlink channel quality information
- the CQI information is used by the eNodeB to schedule downlink data transmissions.
- the CQI request bit allows the eNodeB the poll information on UE's downlink channel conditions.
- PDSCH Downlink assignments
- RV Redundancy Version
- transport format information Similar to the uplink case there is 5 bit MCS field signaled on PDCCH.
- Three of the entries are reserved to signal an explicit modulation order, providing no Transport format (Transport block) info.
- Transport block size info For the remaining 29 entries modulation order and Transport block size info are signaled.
- the frequency spectrum for IMT-Advanced was decided at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 (WRC-07) last November [4]. Although the overall frequency spectrum for IMT-Advanced was decided, the actual available frequency bandwidth is different according to each region or country. Following the decision on the available frequency spectrum outline, however, standardization of a radio interface started in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). At the 3GPP TSG RAN #39 meeting, the Study Item description on “Further Advancements for E-UTRA (LTE-Advanced)” was approved. The study item covers technology components to be considered for the evolution of E-UTRA, e.g. to fulfill the requirements on IMT-Advanced. Two major technology components which are currently under consideration for LTE-A are described in the following.
- Carrier aggregation where two or more component carriers are aggregated, is considered for LTE-Advanced in order to support wider transmission bandwidths e.g. up to 100 MHz and for spectrum aggregation.
- a terminal may simultaneously receive or transmit on one or multiple component carriers depending on its capabilities:
- LTE-Advanced Relaying is considered for LTE-Advanced as a tool to improve e.g. the coverage of high data rates, group mobility, temporary network deployment, the cell-edge throughput and/or to provide coverage in new areas.
- the relay node is wirelessly connected to radio-access network via a donor cell.
- the connection can be
- relays can be classified into
- a relay may
- the relay In the case the relay is part of the donor cell, the relay does not have a cell identity of its own (but may still have a relay ID). At least part of the RRM is controlled by the eNodeB to which the donor cell belongs, while parts of the RRM may be located in the relay. In this case, a relay should preferably support also LTE Rel. 8 user equipments. Smart repeaters, decode-and-forward relays and different types of L2 relays are examples of this type of relaying.
- the relay In the case the relay is in control of cells of its own, the relay controls one or several cells and a unique physical-layer cell identity is provided in each of the cells controlled by the relay.
- the same RRM mechanisms are available and from a user equipment perspective there is no difference in accessing cells controlled by a relay and cells controlled by a “normal” eNodeB.
- the cells controlled by the relay should support also LTE Rel. 8 user equipments.
- Self-backhauling (L3 relay) uses this type of relaying.
- FIG. 4 an exemplary LTE-A system is shown which utilizes relay nodes (RN).
- RN relay nodes
- S1 interface The wireless interface between eNode B and RN, which connects a RN with the radio access network, is referred to as S1 interface.
- 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) it is required that the user equipment can perform an IDLE-to-ACTIVE mode transition within 100 ms, i.e. the initial access should be established within 100 ms. For 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) this delay requirement can be fulfilled.
- 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10) however the overall control plane latency, i.e. IDLE-to-ACTIVE transition, shall be significantly decreased compared to EPS (Evolved Packet System) 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8).
- the desired target for transition time from RRC_IDLE mode-to-RRC_CONNECTED mode currently considered is about 50 ms, which is however not achievable for cell edge user equipments with the currently specified contention based RACH procedure of 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8)
- One object of the invention is to suggest a fast random access procedure for use in a mobile communication system.
- One aspect of the invention is therefore proposing a parallelization of the RRC connection setup between mobile terminal and its base station and the establishment of the base station connection (user plane radio access bearer) towards the core network of the mobile communication system.
- the inventors recognized that one problem in implementing such parallelization may be the size of the first scheduled transmission by a mobile terminal in a random access procedure that is actually informing the base station on the cause of the connection establishment.
- the size of the first scheduled transmission can be very limited so that not sufficient information can be sent by mobile terminal to allow provide all information for RRC connection establishment and the parallel establishment of the S1 connection which initiates the access stratum security activation and radio bearer establishment.
- another aspect of the invention is to propose a mechanism to signal to the mobile terminal which transmission mode should be used for the first scheduled transmission.
- the transmission mode is indicated by the base station in the random access response sent to the mobile terminal in response to receiving a random access preamble from the mobile terminal at the base station.
- One embodiment of the invention is therefore relating to a random access response message for transmission from a base station to a mobile station in a random access procedure.
- the random access response message comprises a resource grant field for granting resources to a mobile terminal for a scheduled uplink transmission, and further a transmission mode indicator indicating the transmission mode for the scheduled uplink transmission.
- the transmission mode indicator is indicating whether or not a TTI bundling mode is to be used by the mobile terminal for the scheduled uplink transmission.
- the mobile terminal may for example send multiple redundancy versions of the same transport block within a number of consecutive transmission time intervals on the granted resources.
- TTI bundling mode the mobile terminal may for example send multiple redundancy versions of the same transport block within a number of consecutive transmission time intervals on the granted resources.
- the transmission mode indicator is contained in a separate field of the random access response message.
- this separate field could be a part of the resource grant field containing the grant for the scheduled uplink transmission.
- the resource grant field comprises a flag. Depending on whether contention based random access or non-contention based random access is performed, this flag is interpreted differently. If the random access procedure is a contention based random access procedure, the flag is signalling the transmission mode indicator. If the random access procedure is a non-contention based random access procedure, the flag is a CQI request bit for requesting a CQI report from the mobile terminal
- the random access response message further comprises a timing advance command to synchronize transmissions of the mobile terminal and the base station and an assignment of a Temporary Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (Temporary CRNTI).
- Temporary CRNTI Temporary Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier
- Another embodiment of the invention is providing a random access procedure for use in a mobile communication system.
- a base station transmits a random access response in response to receiving a random access preamble from a mobile terminal.
- This random access response message comprises a grant for a scheduled transmission by the mobile terminal and an indication on the uplink transmission mode for the scheduled transmission.
- the random access response message is a message according to one of the different embodiments described herein.
- the mobile terminal transmits the random access preamble to the base station.
- the random access preamble thereby indicates to the base station the transmission mode requested by the mobile terminal for the scheduled uplink transmission.
- the preamble is thus signalling to the base station whether the mobile terminal wants to use TTI bundling for the scheduled transmission or not.
- the mobile terminal is selecting the random access preamble out of a plurality of predefined preambles.
- the predefined preambles are assigned to different groups associated to respective requested transmission modes for the scheduled uplink transmission.
- the predefined preambles are assigned to different groups associated to respective requested transmission modes for the scheduled uplink transmission and to further indicate the mobile terminal's compatibility with a specific release of the mobile communication system.
- the indication of the transmission mode can be considered a release indication, i.e. an indication of the compatibility of the mobile terminal to a specific mobile communication system.
- the transmission mode indicator/release indicator could indicate whether the user equipment is supporting 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10) or not.
- the random access procedure further comprises transmitting a scheduled uplink transmission from the mobile station to the base station according to the transmission mode indicated in the random access response message.
- the transmission mode may be for example a TTI bundling mode.
- the mobile terminal is therefore transmitting different redundancy versions of the same transport block within a number of consecutive transmission time intervals on the resources granted in the random access response message.
- the scheduled uplink transmission comprises a RRC connection request and a non-access stratum service request message.
- the base station can perform, in response to the RRC connection request, respectively, the non-access stratum service request, a RRC connection setup on the radio interface in parallel to the initial security activation and radio bearer establishment.
- the RRC connection setup procedure and the initial security activation and radio bearer establishment procedure are not part of the random access procedure, but the random access procedure can be considered the initial procedure performed in a mobile terminal transiting from idle mode to connected mode, which is followed by RRC connection establishment and initial security activation and radio bearer establishment.
- the connection setup procedure is setting up a RRC connection between the base station and the mobile terminal
- the non-access stratum procedure is setting up a connection between the base station and the core network node in the mobile communication system's core network.
- the “connection” between the base station and the core network node in the mobile communication system's core network is a bearer between the base station (eNodeB) and its serving gateway (SGW) in the core network on the so-called S1 interface.
- SGW serving gateway
- S1 connection is established by the mobility management entity (MME) serving the mobile terminal (user equipment), which handles the control plane signalling.
- MME mobility management entity
- the random access procedure is performed by mobile terminals establishing an RRC connection to the network.
- the base station comprises a receiver for receiving a random access preamble from a mobile terminal. Furthermore, the base station is equipped with a transmitter for transmitting a random access response to the mobile terminal in response to receiving a random access preamble.
- This random access response message comprises a grant for a scheduled transmission by the mobile terminal and an indication on the uplink transmission mode for the scheduled transmission.
- the base station's receiver may be further operable to receive—in response to the random access response—a scheduled uplink transmission from the mobile terminal according to the transmission mode indicated in the random access response.
- This scheduled uplink transmission could for example comprise a RRC connection request and a non-access stratum service request and the base station will perform a RRC connection setup procedure in parallel to the establishment of the S1 connection between base station and core network in response to this scheduled uplink transmission.
- a further embodiment of the invention provides a mobile terminal for performing a random access procedure in a mobile communication system.
- the mobile terminal comprises a transmitter for transmitting a random access preamble to a base station, and a receiver for receiving a random access response from the base station in response to receiving a random access preamble.
- the random access response message comprises a grant for a scheduled transmission by the mobile terminal and an indication on the uplink transmission mode for the scheduled transmission.
- the mobile terminal's transmitter may be optionally further adapted to transmit in response to the random access response a scheduled uplink transmission from the mobile terminal according to the transmission mode indicated in the random access response.
- the scheduled uplink transmission comprises a RRC connection request and a non-access stratum service request.
- Another embodiment of the invention relates to a computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a base station, causes the base station to perform a random access procedure in a mobile communication system, by receiving a random access preamble from a mobile terminal, and transmitting a random access response to the mobile terminal in response to receiving a random access preamble, wherein the random access response message comprises a grant for a scheduled transmission by the mobile terminal and an indication on the uplink transmission mode for the scheduled transmission.
- another embodiment of the invention provides a computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile terminal, causes the mobile terminal to perform a random access procedure in a mobile communication system, by transmitting a random access preamble to a base station, and receiving a random access response from the base station in response to receiving a random access preamble, wherein the random access response message comprises a grant for a scheduled transmission by the mobile terminal and an indication on the uplink transmission mode for the scheduled transmission.
- FIG. 1 shows an exemplary architecture of a 3GPP LTE system
- FIG. 2 shows an exemplary overview of the overall E-UTRAN architecture of LTE
- FIG. 3 show an exemplary localized allocation of the uplink bandwidth in a single carrier FDMA scheme
- FIG. 4 shows an exemplary overview of the overall E-UTRAN architecture of LTE-A including several relay nodes (RN),
- RN relay nodes
- FIG. 5 shows the signaling messages of a contention based random access procedure in a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) system
- FIG. 6 shows the signaling messages of a contention free random access procedure in a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) system
- FIG. 7 shows the message format of a Random Access Response message according to a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) RACH procedure
- FIG. 8 shows the signaling messages of an initial access procedure, i.e. transition from RRC_IDLE state to RRC_CONNECTED state, in a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) system,
- FIG. 9 shows the signaling messages of an initial access procedure, i.e. transition from RRC_IDLE state to RRC_CONNECTED, according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention
- FIGS. 10 & 15 show a flow chart for the operation of a mobile terminal according to different embodiments of the invention, when performing a random access procedure
- FIG. 11 show a flow chart for the operation of a base station according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, when performing a random access procedure
- FIG. 12 shows the TTI bundling of a transmission according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- FIGS. 13 & 14 show alternative message formats of a random access response message according to exemplary embodiments of the invention.
- FIG. 8 shows the procedures that need to be performed by a user equipment (UE) in a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) system when transiting from RRC IDLE mode to RRC CONNECTED mode.
- This procedure includes a Random Access Procedure, subsequently a RRC Connection establishment procedure and thereupon an initial security activation and radio bearer establishment procedure.
- FIG. 8 also exemplarily indicates that different delays ( 801 , 802 , 803 , 804 , 806 , 808 , 810 , 812 and 814 ) in UE, eNodeB and MME for processing the respective messages. Initially, the UE is assumed to be in RRC IDLE mode.
- the Random Access Procedure corresponds to the procedure described with respect to FIG. 5 previously herein.
- the UE indicates that it wishes to setup a RRC connection by including a RRC Connection Setup Request to the transmission.
- the eNodeB sends 805 a RRC Connection Establishment message to the UE for setting up the signaling connection (control plane) between the UE and the eNodeB including the initial radio resource configuration including SRB1 (signaling radio bearer 1).
- the RRC Connection Establishment message acts as the contention resolution message (as shown in FIG. 5 , step 504 ).
- the UE responds by sending 807 a message to inform the eNodeB on the successful configuration of the control plane by signaling RRC Connection Establishment Complete.
- the message is further comprising the initial uplink non-access stratum message, a service request message (for instance to request user plane radio resources for services like a VoIP communication, etc.), which is referred to as the NAS Service Request.
- the eNode B In response to this NAS Service Request, the eNode B starts establishing the S1 connection which triggers the access stratum security activation and the establishment of SRB2 (signaling radio bearer 2) and one or more data radio bearers (Initial Security Activation and Radio Bearer Establishment).
- the eNodeB initiates the establishment of the S1 connection (eNodeB core network) by sending 809 a Connection Request to the MME.
- the eNodeB sends the Security Mode Command message to activate the integrity protection and ciphering. This message, which is integrity protected but not ciphered, indicates which algorithms shall be used.
- the UE verifies the integrity protection of the Security Mode Control message and, if its integrity can be confirmed, it configures lower layers to apply integrity protection and ciphering to all subsequent messages (with the exception that ciphering is not applied to the response message, i.e. Security Mode Complete message).
- the eNodeB also sends 813 a RRC Connection Reconfiguration message including a radio resource configuration used to establish the second signaling bearer (for control plane traffic) and one or more dedicated radio bearers (for user plane traffic). This message may also include other information such as a piggybacked NAS message or a measurement configuration.
- the UE returns 815 the RRC Connection Reconfiguration Complete message to confirm configuration of the bearers.
- some messages may not be unambiguously attributed to one of the different procedures performed.
- the scheduled transmission in step 503 is as such a part of the random access procedure.
- the content thereof, i.e. the RRC Connection Request is however already part of the RRC Connection Setup procedure.
- the RRC Connection Establishment message in step 805 is on the one hand starting the RRC Connection Establishment procedure, but is also ending the random access procedure as it also comprises the contention resolution of the random access procedure.
- the RRC Connection Reconfiguration Complete message is ending the RRC Connection Establishment procedure, while the NAS Service Request is as such already part of the Initial Security Activation and Radio Bearer Establishment procedure.
- the different dashed boxes indicating the different procedures are therefore partly overlapping on some messages.
- one aspect of the invention is to reduce the overall delay of the RRC IDLE mode-to-RRC CONNECTED mode transition as exemplarily outlined for the 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) procedure above.
- One means to achieve this is to send a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) Service Request together with the RRC Connection Request in first scheduled transmission of a mobile terminal during the random access procedure. This allows to establish the RRC level connection between the mobile terminal and the base station and the radio access bearer for the requested service between base station and the core network in parallel.
- NAS Non-Access Stratum
- Non-Access Stratum (NAS) Service Request together with the RRC Connection Request during the random access procedure would allow to setup the S1 interface between the eNode B and the Serving Gateway (SGW) of a user equipment in parallel to the RRC connection setup on the air interface between the user equipment and the eNode B (i.e. the Uu interface), which in turn reduces the delay significantly.
- SGW Serving Gateway
- FIG. 9 shows a signaling procedure for an RRC IDLE mode-to-RRC CONNECTED mode transition including a random access procedure according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, where the setup of the S1 interface is performed in parallel to RRC connection setup.
- the UE is in idle mode first and is initiating the Random Access Procedure by transmitting 901 a Random Access Preamble to the eNodeB which is responding with sending 902 a Random Access Response (as described previously).
- the UE transmits 903 the RRC Connection Setup Request and a NAS Service Request simultaneously to the eNodeB, i.e. concatenation of RRC Connection Setup Request and NAS Service Request message.
- the eNodeB may now start to perform a RRC Connection Setup procedure and a NAS procedure (Initial Security Activation and Radio Bearer Establishment) in parallel, which significantly reduces the delay of the overall RRC IDLE mode-to-RRC CONNECTED mode transition of the UE.
- the RRC Connection Setup and the NAS procedure correspond to the procedures as explained with respect to FIG. 8 above, except for the RRC Connection Setup being performed in parallel to the Connection Request 906 (and the Connection Setup received 907 by the eNodeB in response thereto) and no NAS Service Request being signaled together with the RRC Connection Setup Complete in step 905 .
- some messages of FIG. 9 may not be unambiguously attributed to one of the different procedures performed.
- the scheduled transmission in step 903 is as such a part of the random access procedure.
- the content thereof, i.e. the RRC Connection Request is however already part of the RRC Connection Setup procedure while the NAS Service Request can be considered to belong to the Initial Security Activation and Radio Bearer Establishment procedure.
- the different dashed boxes indicating the different procedures are therefore partly overlapping on some messages.
- One bottleneck of the 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) contention based random access procedure is the limited size of the first scheduled uplink transmission (see step 503 in FIG. 5 and FIG. 8 ). Since power control is not really working at this point of time, only a small number of bits can be transmitted within this message without requiring too many HARQ retransmissions which would in turn delay the whole random access procedure (RACH procedure).
- Investigations in the 3GPP RAN Working Group #1 have shown that the minimum size of the first scheduled transmission in the contention based random access procedure in 3GPP LTE Rel. 8 is 56 bits, already considering the cell coverage and the UE power limitation. These 56 bits are basically representing the “worst case” scenario, i.e. a user equipment at the cell-edge which is power limited. Furthermore it should be noted that two HARQ retransmissions were assumed in order to support a message size of 56 bits.
- the limited size of the first scheduled transmission in the contention based random access procedure which can be only supported by for example UEs located at the cell edge brings some disadvantages which will be explained in more detail in the following.
- There is a certain delay requirement for the RRC IDLE-to-RRC CONNECTED transition which needs to be fulfilled by a user equipment.
- this requirement is 100 ms, i.e. the initial access (i.e. the transition from idle mode to connected mode) should be established within 100 ms.
- 3GPP LTE Rel. 8 this delay requirement can be fulfilled.
- 3GPP LTE-A (Rel.
- one aspect of the invention is to reduce the overall delay in the RRC IDLE-to-RRC CONNECTED mode transition by performing the RRC Connection Setup and the S1 connection establishment in parallel, which is requiring that the user equipment communicates the NAS Service Request to the eNodeB as soon as possible, preferably as part of the Random Access Procedure (see step 903 of FIG. 9 ).
- the minimum message size of this transmission needs to be extended. Allocating only 56 bits for the scheduled transmission as in 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8), it is not possible to convey also NAS Service Request together with the RRC Connection Request.
- simply assigning more bandwidth for the scheduled transmission in the random access procedure is not solving this problem for example for power limited UEs due to the decreased power per Resource Element (RE) that would be available to the user equipment and its power limitation.
- RE Resource Element
- the scheduler in eNodeB takes channel conditions into account when selecting a transport block size which should be used by the user equipments for an uplink transmission.
- power-limited user equipments typically receive only grants for small transport block sizes.
- the selected transport block size is even too small to carry e.g. a single VoIP packet and the required RLC/MAC headers, several transport blocks need to be granted.
- RLC layer segmentation is applied. This approach can be used for both, dynamic and semi-persistent scheduling.
- a segmentation of small packets has several drawbacks in terms of overhead. Essentially each separate RLC PDU requires an RLC/MAC header that introduces overhead.
- HARQ (re)transmission a L1/L2 control message is needed to grant resources. The high number of required retransmissions leads to a significant load on the L1/L2 control channel.
- another embodiment of the invention is proposing to use an uplink transmission mode, which is referred to as TTI bundling, for the first scheduled transmission of the random access procedure.
- TTI bundling mode several TTIs are bundled together in order to mitigate the uplink coverage issues.
- FIG. 12 is exemplarily illustrating a “bundled” transmission of a transport block (corresponding to the first scheduled transmission in the random access procedure, as for example shown in step 903 of FIG. 9 ; step 1005 in FIG. 10 ; step 1104 in FIG. 11 ) according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention. It is assumed for exemplary purposes that 4 consecutive subframes, respectively TTIs are bundled. A single transport block from MAC layer for the first scheduled transmission of the random access procedure is coded and is transmitted repeatedly in four consecutive subframes, i.e. also referred to as TTI bundle, with only one set of control signaling for the whole transmission.
- each TTI of the bundle a redundancy version (RV) for the transport block is sent (in the same HARQ process), without waiting for HARQ feedback.
- RV redundancy version
- non-adaptive retransmissions are used for the transmission in the bundled TTIs. Only when the last transmission of a TTI bundle is received, HARQ feedback (ACK/NACK) is sent and expected.
- ACK/NACK HARQ feedback
- the retransmission of a TTI bundle is also a bundle of individual transmissions of the transport block.
- the number of HARQ processes may be reduced to 4 in the TTI bundling mode, in comparison to the “normal” operation of non-bundling mode where typically 8 HARQ processes are used for uplink transmissions. Furthermore the HARQ roundtrip time (RTT) is doubled (16 ms) for the TTI bundling mode compared to the non-bundling mode (8 ms).
- RTT roundtrip time
- the TTI bundling mode allows for increasing the transport block size that can be sent even by cell-edge user equipments in comparison to the non-bundling transmission mode.
- the main reason for this is the additional combining gain achieved by combining the transmissions of the TTI bundle prior to decoding at the receiving node, so that a more aggressive modulation and coding scheme may be used which will effectively lead to an increased transport block size (given a constant number of allocated resource elements).
- the transport block size may be significantly increased also for cell-edge user equipments such that the first scheduled transmission can convey the RRC connection request and the NAS service request, which in turn facilitates the parallelization of the RRC Connection Setup procedure and the S1 connection setup as outlined previously herein.
- a further design consideration for the random access procedure is the handling of user equipments which are implementing earlier releases like for example 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) for this procedure.
- 3GPP LTE 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10) system it may be desirable that this procedure is compatible with a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) procedures, where user equipments will not support the improved random access procedures discussed herein.
- the communication system could be implemented to use TTI bundling for the first scheduled transmissions of the random access procedure by default, so that respective signalling of the transmission mode would be obsolete in this example.
- the eNode B is deciding on the transmission mode for the first scheduled transmission. This could also allow the eNode B to avoid bundled transmissions for the first scheduled transmission. For example, the eNode B (its scheduler) could allocate a transport block size for cell-centre user equipments that is large enough to simultaneously send a RRC connection request and a NAS service request, while it uses TTI bundling for cell-edge user equipments performing initial access. Accordingly another embodiment of the invention is proposing a new format for the random access response message that is sent by the base station (e.g. eNodeB in a 3GPP based system) to the mobile terminal (e.g.
- the base station e.g. eNodeB in a 3GPP based system
- the random access response message comprises a resource grant field for granting resources to a mobile terminal for a scheduled uplink transmission, and a transmission mode indicator indicating the transmission mode for the scheduled uplink transmission.
- this transmission mode indicator may indicate use of the TTI bundling mode or a backward compatible transmission mode, i.e. a non-bundling mode.
- FIG. 7 shows the format of the MAC Random Access Response of 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8).
- the message is starting with one bit which is unused, i.e. denoted by R (reserved). This unused bit is followed by the Timing Advance Command (11 bits).
- R Reserved
- the grant (UL Grant) of the uplink resources for the first scheduled transmission by the user equipment (20 bits), which is followed by the Temporary C-RNTI assigned to the user equipment (16 bits).
- FIG. 13 shows the format of the random access response message according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- the message format in FIG. 13 is essentially corresponding to that of FIG. 7 , except for the use of the first bit (TM) in the message to signal the transmission mode.
- the message format of FIG. 13 may be readily used in a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 10) and ensures backward compatibility with 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) compatible user equipments that ignore the first bit of the random access response message.
- the 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) random access response comprises a resource grant field (UL Grant) that is including a CQI request bit (CQI). Similar to the reserved bit (R), a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) compatible user equipment performing a contention based random access procedure ignores this bit when processing the random access response message. Hence, for contention based random access, this CQI request bit could be reused for the indication of the transmission mode of the first scheduled transmission.
- FIG. 14 exemplarily shows the message format of another random access response message according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention for use in a contention based random access procedure. The format is corresponding to that of FIG. 7 except for the reuse of the CQI request bit (CQI) for the transmission mode indicator (TM). Also the message format of FIG. 14 may be readily used in a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 10).
- the random access response format of FIG. 7 for 3GPP LTE (Rel. 10) compatible user equipments performing non-contention based random access and for random access of 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) compatible user equipments
- the random access response format of FIG. 14 is used for 3GPP LTE (Rel. 10) compatible user equipments performing contention based random access.
- the format of the messages in FIG. 14 and FIG. 7 are the same, but the interpretation/meaning of the flag (here last bit in the UL Grant field) depends on whether contention based random access or non-contention based random access is performed by the user equipment and on the release a user equipment is implementing.
- FIG. 10 shows a flow chart of the exemplary operation of a mobile terminal in a contention based random access procedure according to an embodiment of the invention.
- the mobile terminal first selects 1001 one out of a plurality of random access preambles for the contention based random access procedure. There may be for example a plurality of preambles predefined in the system or configured by the eNodeB via cell broadcast.
- the mobile terminal sends 1002 the selected random access preamble to the eNode B to trigger a random access response message from the eNodeB which is received 1003 by the mobile terminal.
- the random access response message is containing inter alia a resource grant for the first scheduled uplink transmission of the mobile terminal as well as a transmission mode indicator.
- the random access response message has a format as shown in FIG. 13 or FIG. 14 .
- the mobile terminal determines 1004 , whether the transmission mode indicator in the random access response is set or not, and acts accordingly. If the transmission mode indicator is set, the mobile terminal transmits 1005 the first scheduled transmission as scheduled by the grant within the random access response using TTI bundling. Accordingly, the mobile terminal builds a transport block and is coding same to obtain one or more redundancy versions of the transport block. Subsequently, the mobile terminal transmits a redundancy version of the transport block in a respective transmission time interval of the TTI bundle.
- HARQ may be used for the transmission of the first scheduled transmission.
- all transmissions in the TTI bundle are sent on the same HARQ process.
- the mobile terminal is receiving HARQ feedback after having transmitted the first bundled transmission that is indicating whether the eNodeB could successfully decode the transport block conveyed within the transmission bundle (ACK) or not (NACK).
- the mobile terminal transmits 1006 transmits the first transmission as scheduled by the grant within the random access without TTI bundling. Accordingly, the mobile terminal builds a transport block and is coding same to obtain one or more redundancy versions of the transport block. Subsequently, the mobile terminal transmits one (advantageously self-decodable) redundancy version of the transport block within the transmission time interval as allocated by the grant within the random access response message.
- the base station first receives 1101 a random access preamble from a mobile terminal.
- the eNode B determines whether TTI bundling can be supported for the first scheduled transmission 1102 . This decision may depend on one of more of several criteria, such as the mobile terminal's capability to support TTI bundling in the random access procedure, the processing load of the base station, the availability of resources, a mobile terminal's request for TTI bundling etc.
- the base station's scheduler schedules the first scheduled transmission of mobile terminal and determines 1103 the corresponding grant, which is indicating the physical channel resources (e.g. number of resource elements) of the transmission and further L1/L2 control signaling parameters (e.g. modulation and coding scheme, new data indicator, etc.).
- the physical channel resources e.g. number of resource elements
- L1/L2 control signaling parameters e.g. modulation and coding scheme, new data indicator, etc.
- the base station forms the random access response and transmits 1104 same to the mobile terminal.
- the base station also sets the transmission mode indicator (TM) within the grant (see UL Grant field) to indicate use of the TTI bundling mode.
- the message format as shown in FIG. 13 is used and the transmission mode indicator (TM) in the first bit of the message is set to indicate use of the TTI bundling mode for the scheduled transmission.
- the base station receives 1105 the first scheduled transmission from the mobile terminal on the resources allocated by the grant and using TTI bundling.
- the base station receives all transmissions of the bundle (i.e. the redundancy versions of the transport blocks) and soft-combines them prior to the decoding attempt by the base station's decoder.
- the steps of the base station in case no TTI bundling is to be used are similar except for the transmission mode indicator being not set. Also in this case the base station's scheduler schedules the transmission of the mobile terminal and generates 1106 a corresponding grant for transmission 1107 to the mobile terminal in the random access response message. Subsequently, the base station receives 1108 the first scheduled transmission from the mobile terminal on the resources allocated by the grant, wherein no TTI bundling is used. The base station receives the transmission and tries to decode same in the base station's decoder.
- the allocated resources for the mobile terminal according to the grant comprised in the random access response message yield a transport block size for the first scheduled transmission sufficient in size to transmit a RRC connection setup request and a NAS service request simultaneously.
- the base station's scheduler can for example use a more aggressive modulation and coding scheme (i.e. a higher order modulation scheme and/or higher code rate) due to the soft-combining gain obtained by TTI bundling in comparison to a non-bundling transmission that is allocated the same number of resource elements on the physical channel.
- the transmission mode indicator which is signaled within the Random access response message indicates whether the user equipment should use one of the defined transmission modes for the transmission of the first scheduled uplink transmission of the random access procedure.
- the transmission mode indicator could for example instruct the user equipment to use TTI bundling for the first scheduled uplink transmission. Alternatively there could be other transmission modes defined.
- the user equipment has the freedom to select itself the transport format for the first uplink message. The user equipment could choose the transport format such that the transport block size for the first scheduled transmission is sufficient in size to transmit a RRC connection setup request and a NAS service request simultaneously.
- the base station indicates to the user equipment within the random access response message, for example as mentioned in one of the previous embodiments by means of the CQI request bit or the reserved bit, whether the user equipment shall perform the uplink transmission in accordance to the UL grant signaled in the random access response message or whether the user equipment has the freedom to select the transport format itself.
- FIG. 15 Next another exemplary embodiment of the invention relating to a more detailed implementation of a contention based random access procedure according to another embodiment of the invention that is supporting TTI bundling will be discussed with respect to FIG. 15 .
- the procedure of FIG. 15 can be considered a more advanced and detailed operation of the mobile terminal as shown in FIG. 10 .
- a trigger 1501 to transit from RRC IDLE mode to RRC CONNECTED mode within the mobile terminal.
- Such trigger could be for example a paging request, such as for example a user starting a telephone call or an application. Accordingly, this trigger will cause the mobile terminal to perform a contention based random access procedure (assuming that the mobile terminal is in RRC IDLE mode).
- the mobile terminal determines 1503 whether TTI bundling for the scheduled transmission is required in order to transmit a combined NAS/RRC message (i.e. the RRC connection setup request and the NAS service request) within one transport block.
- a mobile terminal located at the cell center i.e. experiencing good channels conditions, might be able to transmit the combined NAS/RRC message without using TTI bundling.
- the TTI bundling transmission mode is targeting mobile terminals at the cell edges, which are power limited.
- the mobile terminal could for example estimate 1502 the uplink channel quality, e.g. based on downlink path loss (RSRP), and determines the required transmission mode (TTI-bundling/non-bundling) for the scheduled transmission based on this measurement.
- RSRP downlink path loss
- the decision of the transmission mode is for example done based on a threshold which could be for example signaled by eNodeB, e.g. broadcasted in the system information. Alternatively it could be completely left up to mobile terminal's implementation to decide the transmission mode for the first scheduled transmission of the random access procedure.
- This threshold could be a pathloss based threshold.
- the decision of the transmission mode could be also based on the available transmit power, which is also referred to as power headroom sometimes.
- the mobile terminal needs to indicate to eNodeB the “desired” transmission mode for the first scheduled transmission as an outcome of the above mentioned decision, which is also indicating the mobile terminal's capability of supporting TTI bundling for the first scheduled transmission during random access.
- this capability indication is inherently a release indication, i.e. Rel. 8 or Rel. 10.
- a combined indication of the required transmission mode and mobile terminal's capability is used.
- RACH preamble selection For example one set of RACH preambles, e.g. preamble group A, indicates that the mobile is a 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10) compatible UE and requests the use of TTI bundling for the scheduled transmission.
- the available random access preambles RACH preambles
- RACH preambles could also be grouped in 3 different groups A, B and C.
- a preamble of group A indicates a 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10)-compatible UE and requests use of TTI bundling for the scheduled transmission;
- a preamble of group B indicates a 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10) compatible UE and indicates that no TTI bundling for the scheduled transmission is needed;
- a preamble of group C indicates a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8)-compatible UE which is not supporting TTI bundling.
- the exact configuration and grouping is implementation dependent and the above examples are intended to give an idea on how the grouping of preambles could be implemented.
- the mobile terminal selects 1504 a preamble from one of the defined groups depending on whether TTI bundling is required or not, respectively supported by the mobile terminal during random access.
- the mobile terminal transmits 1505 the selected random access preamble to the eNodeB.
- the eNodeB Based on the detected preamble, the eNodeB knows whether a mobile terminal is capable of using TTI bundling and whether TTI bundling is required in order to transmit the combined NAS/RRC message.
- the eNodeB considers this information for subsequent scheduling of the first scheduled transmission by the mobile terminal. If TTI bundling mode is requested for the scheduled transmission (and can be supported by the eNodeB), the transmission mode indicator in the random access response message is set by the eNodeB.
- the mobile terminal receives 1506 the random access response from the eNodeB.
- a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8)-compatible mobile terminal will ignore the transmission mode indicator, while a 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10)-compatible mobile terminal will check the transmission mode indicator within the random access response to determine 1507 whether TTI bundling is to be used for the scheduled transmission.
- the mobile terminal transmits 1507 the scheduled transmission using TTI bundling. If no TTI bundling is to be used, the mobile terminal transmits 1508 the scheduled transmission without using TTI bundling. In both cases the scheduled transmission comprises for example a combined NAS/RRC message.
- Mobile terminal's that do not support TTI bundling during random access may simply ignore the transmission mode indicator in the random access response message and may operate in a conventional manner.
- a 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) random access procedure can be used.
- the preambles defined in a radio cell and their grouping is signed by means of system broadcast by the base station.
- the system broadcast information of the eNodeB may comprise System Information Block(s) that indicate the preambles for contention based initial access in the radio cell controlled by the eNodeB and further the grouping of these preambles.
- the configuration of the physical random access channel (PRACH) resources on which the preambles are to be signaled by the user equipments may also be broadcasted within the system broadcast information.
- the system broadcast information could indicate a set of preambles per defined group as well as the PRACH resources.
- the system broadcast information of a radio cell are received by the mobile terminals so that the mobile terminals can be informed on the preambles and preamble groups defined in the radio cell and the PRACH resources for transmitting a selected preamble to initiate the contention based random access procedure.
- the (group of) preambles for requesting TTI bundling mode for the first scheduled transmission of the random access procedure could be for example defined by a so-called non-critical extension to the system information encoding of 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8) within the 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10) system specification, i.e. those extensions are only “visible” to 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10)-compliant user equipments and will be ignored by 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8)-compliant user equipments.
- the uplink transmission mode (e.g. TTI bundling/non-bundling) is configured by MAC control signaling via the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).
- PDSCH physical downlink shared channel
- the transmission mode may be for example signaled by means of the a random access response on the PDSCH within a 3GPP system.
- the transmission mode configured by random access response is only valid for the first scheduled transmission transmission. If TTI bundling should be used for further uplink transmission (e.g. on the uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) in a 3GPP system) in RRC CONNECTED mode, the transmission mode may be configured RRC signaling.
- the mobile terminal uses the transmission mode signaled in the random access response message for all subsequent uplink transmission until a new configuration is signaled by RRC signaling.
- TTI bundling is enabled/disabled by RRC signaling.
- TTI bundling is enabled by MAC signaling.
- a rule may be defined regulating that if TTI bundling was configured by the RAR message (MAC signaling), the UE uses this configuration for subsequent UL-SCH transmissions too, i.e. after successful RACH procedure instead of using the non-bundling “default” configuration selected if the RRC signaling does not explicitly specify a Transmission Mode.
- the mobile terminal may use TTI bundling for the transmission in steps 903 and 905 , since the Random Access Response message 902 indicated the Transmission Mode to be TTI bundling.
- the mobile terminal shall thus use TTI bundling for all uplink transmissions according to Random Access Response message of the MAC signaling.
- the RRC Connection Reconfiguration in step 908 could be used for example to configure the transmission mode—for example there may be a corresponding information element (IE) in this message to do so.
- IE information element
- One possibility is to redefine the “default mode”, which is selected if no particular transmission mode is selected with the RRC connection Reconfiguration message, as follows: If no Transmission Mode has been indicated previously, e.g. by the Random Access Response message, a non-bundling mode should be used for uplink transmission. However, if a Transmission Mode was indicated before, said Transmission Mode should be maintained. Alternatively, when the Random Access Response message indicates a particular Transmission Mode, the “default mode”, that is to be selected during the RRC Reconfiguration, shall be substituted by said indicated Transmission Mode. Therefore, when later the RRC Connection Reconfiguration message does not indicate anything and thus the “default mode” is selected, the previously indicated Transmission Mode is maintained.
- the indication of the transmission mode is done based on the RNTI used on PDCCH for addressing the random access response message.
- a new second RA-RNTI is defined that, when used for addressing the random access response by the eNodeB, indicates the use of the TTI bundling mode. This would allow the eNodeB to schedule mobile terminals that support TTI bundling during random access differently than mobile terminals that do not support TTI bundling during random access, as it can be assumed that only mobile terminals that support TTI bundling during random access are listening/monitoring to this new RNTI.
- the second RA-RNTI could further implicitly instruct mobile terminal to use TTI bundling for the scheduled transmission of the random access procedure.
- 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10)-compatible mobile terminal receives the random access response the CRC field of which is masked with a RA-RNTI as defined for 3GPP LTE (Rel. 8), the mobile terminal could interpret this as a request to use the “non-bundling” mode for the scheduled transmission, whereas upon reception of a PDCCH addressed using the second RA-RNTI, a 3GPP LTE-A (Rel. 10)-compatible mobile terminal uses TTI-bundling for the scheduled transmission of the random access procedure.
- the RA-RNTI is determined based on the PRACH resource used for the transmission of the random access preamble—typically, the PRACH resource is converted into a RA-RNTI according some predefined equation.
- the user equipment and the eNodeB may be assumed to use two equations for determining the RA-RNTI from the PRACH resource used for the transmission of the random access preamble. These equations are available to both, the user equipment and the eNodeB.
- the equations produce different RA-RNTIs, wherein one equation produces the first RA-RNTI indicates the non-bundling transmission mode, while the second equation produces the before mentioned “second” RA-RNTI that indicates the use of the TTI bundling mode.
- a TTI bundle is set to 4 subframes.
- the same TTI bundle size is also used for the first scheduled transmission transmissions, if TTI bundling is activated.
- the eNodeB explicitly indicates the bundle size for the TTI bundling transmission mode. For example an additional field (e.g. 2 bits in size) could be introduced to the random access response in order to indicate a bundle size of 1 to 4 subframes. This would give eNodeB additional flexibility in scheduling the first scheduled transmission. For example, depending on the cell deployment a bundle size of 2 subframes might be sufficient for the first scheduled transmission of the random access procedure.
- a message field conveying the Transmission Power Control (TPC) bits—being part of the UL Grant as shown in FIG. 7 —in the random response message could be reused for indicating the TTI bundle size.
- TPC Transmission Power Control
- the meaning/interpretation of the field conventionally conveying the TPC bits in the format of FIG. 7 could depend on whether TTI-bundling is used or not (e.g. as indicated in the Reserved Bit field shown in FIG. 13 or in the CQI Bit field shown in FIG. 14 ). For instance, when the CQI or Reserved bit indicates TTI-bundling, the TPC bits would indicate the TTI bundle size. Also other fields of the message format of FIG. 7 could be used for the indication of the bundle size.
- the eNodeB may instruct a user equipment to use TTI bundling for the first scheduled message also for other cases then initial access. If it is desired to ensure that the use of TTI bundling is limited to the initial access scenario (i.e. where the user equipments are in RRC IDLE mode), the user equipments could for example indicate the “purpose” of the RACH access to the eNodeB.
- a certain set of preambles could indicate that a user equipment is capable of using TTI bundling (release indication) and that the required transmission mode is “TTI-bundling” as well as that the PRACH purpose is initial access.
- a computing device or processor may for example be general purpose processors, digital signal processors (DSP), application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, etc.
- DSP digital signal processors
- ASIC application specific integrated circuits
- FPGA field programmable gate arrays
- the various embodiments of the invention may also be performed or embodied by a combination of these devices.
- the various embodiments of the invention may also be implemented by means of software modules, which are executed by a processor or directly in hardware. Also a combination of software modules and a hardware implementation may be possible.
- the software modules may be stored on any kind of computer readable storage media, for example RAM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash memory, registers, hard disks, CD-ROM, DVD, etc.
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